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Google urges US lawmakers not to ban teenagers from social media.
(indusbusinessjournal.com)
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The act in question is all but explicitly about banning lgbt content online, especially for kids. It will leave vulnerable kids with 0 ways to discuss their sexual orientation, gender, etc in a safe space away from their parents.
Assuming the entirety of the rest of the world beyond social media doesn't exist that is.
What world, when you don't have money or privacy of your own? If there's not a good queer alliance club at their school, they're done for.
I mean, I'm 41 years old. My best friend in high school was gay. He talked about it with other friends, and I'm in a pretty right wing province.
The internet is pretty far from the only place that you can discuss these things, and the kind of parents that aren't going to give you the privacy to discuss also are definitely not the kind to just leave the internet alone and let you go crazy on it.
You're talking about extremely psychotic (and completely ineffectual methods of) helicopter parenting.